Hotels and Leisure

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Hotels and Leisure specialists

“Our team’s comprehensive hotels and leisure expertise delivers pragmatic guidance and support in all legal and taxation concerns.”

Hotels and Leisure

With knowledge and expertise in all hotels and leisure matters, we act on every aspect of transactions for hotel chains, hotel investors, and leisure companies.

Guiding clients through every stage, we advise on acquisition, (re)financing, investment, divestment, real estate ownership, employment law issues and construction permits. We also deal with intellectual property, trademarks and licensing agreements.

Furthermore, we handle all contract drafting matters such as sale and lease back, leasing agreements and hotel management agreements. We are also involved in advising, negotiating and drafting of commercial contracts entered into between hotel owners and hotel franchisees.

Experience - Stibbe advises Kinepolis on its acquisition of Landmark cinemas, the second largest movie theatre group in Canada operating 44 movie theaters. This transaction enables Kinepolis to expand it’s business into another continent, creating new growth opportunities.

Experience - Expedia is one of the world’s leading travel companies, with an extensive brand portfolio that includes some of the world’s most trusted online travel brands, including trivago. trivago is a global hotel search platform, in which Expedia holds 65.6% of the shares.

Experience - Stibbe advises Kinepolis on its acquisition of the Dutch Wolff cinema group. Kinepolis acquires nine existing cinemas in the Netherlands, as well as two new construction projects for a megaplex in Utrecht and a multiplex in Dordrecht. The Wolff group not only manages cinemas, but is also a programmer and purchasing centre for other cinemas. These activities are taken over by Kinepolis as well. Moreover, as part of its expansion plans, Kinepolis is also developing its own project for the construction of a multiplex cinema in the Netherlands.

Experience - Stibbe advised, together with White & Case LLP, Katara Hospitality QSA (a subsidiary of the Qatar Investment Authority), the Qatar-based global owner, developer and operator of hotels, on the acquisition of five luxury InterContinental properties in key European cities. Katara Hospitality has acquired a Dutch company owning the InterContinental Amstel Amsterdam, InterContinental Carlton Cannes, InterContinental Madrid, InterContinental Frankfurt and the leasehold interest on the InterContinental De La Ville Rome from a Netherlands-based private investor. The company now has a global portfolio of 32 hotels operational or under development, with properties or projects in 14 countries and a total of more than 7,100 rooms currently in use or under development.

Experience - Assisting real estate developer Saint-Lambert Promotion in the realization of the “Rive Gauche” (“Left Bank”) project in Charleroi, one of the largest commercial projects ever developed in the city.

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